On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:04:08PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > I'd also like feedback on another idea. I'm thinking about adding arguments > to build up the class attribute and style attribute piecemeal: > > make_tag(..., classes=["foo", "bar"]) => ' ... class="foo bar"' > > make_tag(..., styles=["margin:0", "padding: 1ex"]) => '... > style="margin:0; padding: 1ex") > > Would this be useful to others?
Yes! > Would the names collide with any other > potential attributes? (I don't think so since HTML doesn't define "styles" > and "classes", and is unlikely to because of user confusion.) Is there a > better API? What about make_tag(..., style=["margin: 0", "padding: 1ex"]) and make_tag(..., class_=["foo", "bar"]) i.e. overload the type of the attribute instead of the name? > Are there any other attributes where this would be useful on? > > Are there any other syntactic sugar patterns that would be helpful in a > Javascript-rich or HTML 5 application? Marius Gedminas -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy
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